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The monetary reforms of Charlemagne and the circulation of money in early medieval Campania
Author(s) -
Day William R.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
early medieval europe
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1468-0254
pISSN - 0963-9462
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0254.00002
Subject(s) - changeover , conquest , circulation (fluid dynamics) , ancient history , mediterranean climate , history , economic history , geography , archaeology , engineering , transmission (telecommunications) , aerospace engineering , electrical engineering
The article examines the degree to which Charlemagne's conquest of Lombardy extended the domain of the Carolingian silver denarius into Italy, and argues that the changeover from gold to silver was markedly gradual and ultimately temporary in the south of Italy, especially in Campania. In the economic sphere at least, southern Italy was never fully integrated into the Carolingian sphere, but looked rather to the central and eastern Mediterranean.